Supreme Court · 2004 INSC 111 · Decided 16 February 2004
State of H.P. v. Narendra Kumar and ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2004 INSC 111 · [2004] 2 S.C.R. 413
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1109/1997
- Decided
- 16 February 2004
- Bench
- DORAISWAMY RAJU, ARIJIT PASAYAT (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- Evidence Act Section 114
Headnote
B Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, 1954/Prevention of Food Adulteration Rules, 1955-Section 16(1)(a)(i)/Rule 18-Adulteration offood­ Prosecution for-Plea of accused No. I that the article was purchased from C . accused No.2-Sealed sample sent to the Public Analyst-Report of Public Analyst separately sent-Acquittal by Courts below of accused No. I for non-compliance of the Rule and of accused No.2 for the case of purchase of article not proved-On appeal, held: A presumption can be drawn that requirements of the Rule have been complied with-Presumption u!s 114 D of Evidence Act in
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